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Against Associate EU Citizenship

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  • Martijn van den Brink
  • Dimitry Kochenov

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UK nationals will lose their EU citizenship status as a result of the Brexit referendum. To prevent this, several commentators, including the European Parliament Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, proposed to grant associate EU citizenship to UK nationals to safeguard their rights as EU citizens after Brexit. We make the case against associate EU citizenship, dismissing it on three grounds. First, it violates the letter and the spirit of EU law. Second, it violates core EU values, including the EU's promise to respect the constitutional traditions of member states and the values of democracy and the rule of law. Third, it is against EU's interests, as associate EU citizenship fails to respect reciprocity in EU relations with third countries and undermines the coherence of the edifice of EU constitutionalism.

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  • Martijn van den Brink & Dimitry Kochenov, 2019. "Against Associate EU Citizenship," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(6), pages 1366-1382, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:57:y:2019:i:6:p:1366-1382
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12898
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    1. Oliver Schmidtke, 2021. "‘Winning Back Control’: Migration, Borders and Visions of Political Community," International Studies, , vol. 58(2), pages 150-167, April.
    2. Charlotte Galpin, 2022. "Contesting Brexit Masculinities: Pro‐European Activists and Feminist EU Citizenship," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(2), pages 301-318, March.

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